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RALEIGH— Tomorrow, members of the cast of the Peabody Award-winning drama series, The Wire will attend a Backyard Brunch for Barack in Raleigh. Seven of the show’s cast members will visit the Tarheel State in support of the change Barack Obama will bring across the country and in North Carolina.

On Monday, Chad Coleman, Deidre Lovejoy, and Jamie Hector will visit UNC Chapel Hill and Duke University to encourage students to vote early. Early voting in North Carolina started October 16 and November 1 is the last day voters may take advantage of early voting.

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What tom said re: Obama and The Wire. When this was first reported, it was one of the things that really impressed me about Obama. His politics are far too centrist for my tastes, but everything I can tell about his temperament and quality of mind really impress me. His tv-watching habits are just one aspect of that larger picture.

And really, even if there are truly undecided voters lurking out there, I still think andrew is correct: I’m no more willing to be held captive by these people’s fecklessness than I am by the rump of white Southern Democrats still clinging to the illusion that they hold power in the party.

His politics are far too centrist for my tastes, but everything I can tell about his temperament and quality of mind really impress me.

True for me too. On the other hand, I disapprove of people who have Omar as their favorite wire character. He always seemed like a romantic superhero fantasy, compared to all these other characters who were so marked by particularity and human imperfection. I was about to name some alternative favorites, starting with Stringer Bell, but then I realized I couldn’t even pick a favorite character. How do you define favorite — the deepest, the richest, the best written, the most illuminating, the one you felt the most affection for? God, what a fucking amazing show. Omar was my LEAST favorite character, and that’s not even an insult given the competition.

Oh, not a criticism of the actor. But he was a very obvious stand-in, and one of the show’s great strengths was that it had avoided that particular kind of character. I think Gus would have been better had they had a couple extra episodes to develop him without the speeches.

I would like to imagine that dana has a determinate favorite character whom she can identify only by a definite description, so that she is unaware which of the three characters she names is her favorite.